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1822 June 12 Economy etc Thus
1822 June 12

Economy etc

Thus, /Take/ for /an/ example. Scene lies (say) in England. Excise man's lawful pay say ,100 a year. In consideration of a present ( a bribe in this case the language is) received by a manufacturer at whose hands it is his business to cause the produce of his proportion of a tax upon the manufactory to be received in the account of the Government, the Exciseman has connived at a fraudulent operation or state of things by which the manufacturer has gained ,100, the government which in this case is as much to say the /whole/ community at large suffered a loss to that same amount. Bribe-giver or Corrupter, the manufacturer: bribe-taker or functionary corrupted, the Exciseman.

So much for the Exciseman the functionary on the lowest stage of the department of finance /in question/, in the lowest degree /stage/ /level/ in the scale of subordination.

Come now to /Take in hand now/ the Monarch. Rise /Mount/ /Ascend/ now to the highest level. Take in hand the Monarch. Pay of the Chief of the State in the case of the Anglo-American United States, ,5,000. a year. Whether there be in it or be not any thing of superfluity, is at any rate sufficient. On no occasion has any demand for any addition been ever made: on no occasion has any public indication been afforded /given/ of preponderant evil in any individual shape as having been produced for want of an addition to such or such amount alledged to have been requisite. Pay of the Monarch say ,1,000,000 a year. intelligible and justifiable demand for any more than the abovementioned ,5,000 a year none ever brought to view or ever capable of being brought to view. Source of this pay money exacted from unwilling contributors /the whole nation/. Here to those same contributors so much loss: and in a greater or less degree by all those who are capable of feeling it, the whole of the loss felt. This feeling being so much correspondent evil, it rests on all such as are disposed and regard themselves as competent to the task of producing justification for this excess, to produce it.
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  • Title: [[clviii. 340] 1822 June 12]
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    1822 June 12

    11. Example. England.

    I Government repugnant. Exciseman's pay ,100. For a bribe of ,│   │, he connives at a fraudulent operation by which manufacturer saves ,100: loss to Government, i.e. to Community, ,100. Bribe-giver, or corruptor here, the manufacturer: functionary corrupted, the Exciseman.

    12. II Government accordant. Chief of State's pay in U.S. ,5525: Superfluous or not, this sufficient. Demand for addition none: nor evil, for want of addition, alledged.

    Anglice? ,1,000,000. demand, intelligible or justifiable, for any more than the above ,5,000, none. Source of the pay, money from unwilling contributors: by all, proportionable loss felt. So much loss felt, so much evil, or those in whose eyes the production of it is justifiable rests the burthen of justifying it.

    13. This not done nor doable, sinister sacrifice ,995,000. Corrupted and Corruptors Monarch and the members of the two coordinate bodies. Act prohibited or made punishable, none. Remedy, none but by substitution of the only justifiable form of Government to this unjustifiable one, as above.

    14. As the extent of this sacrifice, and the correspondent corruption, so the diminution of functionaries appropriate moral aptitude.

    15. Seen below, in regard to each of several securities for do. aptitude, employment given to them under English Government, either none or a minimum - thence in the whole Anglici appropriate moral aptitude minimized.
  • Title: [[clviii. 342] 1822 June 14.]
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    1822 June 14.

    Economy etc.

    23. or 6. As to intercourse for the conveyance of Office appointed voting functionary's pocket, intercourse by words or other general instruments of discourse, is no more necessary between the one and the other than between Barrow Woman and Cat.

    24. or 7. Hence for loading a nation with 600 millions of Debt, and 100,000 soldiers in 30 years no more appropriate aptitude, moral, intellectual or active is necessary on the part of English Statesmen than is possessed by all Cats meat barrow women and all cats.

    25. or 1. On what Functionaries the corruption operates, and to whose prejudice, depends on the form of Government.

    26. or 2. Case 1. Absolute Monarchy. End of Government, Monarch's greatest happiness: people's happiness no object of regard. Of people, no delegates, Agents, and Trustees Here, sole sinister sacrifice do. of Monarchs interest.

    27. or 3. Note here difference between Monarchy and Republic.

    In both cases, ,5. Corruptors bribe. Suppose received by an Exciseman or other Tax-gathering functionary: loss to revenue ,100. Under a Republic, interest sacrificed is the people's interest: under Monarchy, the Monarch's: unless the defalcation is made up for by more taxes

    28. or 4. As to the position that the people do not form in a Monarchy any object of regard, the very fact that the government is a Monarchy suffices for demonstration of it.
  • Title: [22 Aug 1809 Parl y Reform Corruption]
    Description: 22 Aug 1809

    Parl y Reform

    Corruption

    Electors

    3

    It is from /by/ the application /use/ made of it in other instances that the word bribery has contracted /become associated with/ that idea of depravity, which, when the case comes to be examined into, will /is/ not be found to adhere /belong/ to it in this. It is not only scandalous but flagitious /pernicious/ /wicked/, and still more pernicious than it is scandalous, for an exciseman, for example, or any other collector of the public revenues to receive a bribe from a contributor. - Why? because what is certain is that in this case the bribe would not be given, if the interest of the people in respect of their /the/ revenue necessary to their preservation did not suffer by it. Bribery in that case can not take place, but that evil must ensue: the evil that in that case ensues can not ensue but that the author of it must know of it.

    But here in this case, no mischief does take place in consequence of the bribe, no mischief unless by accident is by the receiver of the bribe supposed to take place in consequence of the acceptance he has given to it, so much as supposed to take place.